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Had a real 'swamp monster' scare on a job in the Florida Everglades last month
We were running a small cutterhead dredge in a backwater channel, just me and my buddy Mike. It was getting dark and the spotlight was picking up weird shapes in the murky water. All of a sudden, the whole rig jolts like we hit a log, but the pump pressure didn't spike. Mike leans over the side with a flashlight and this huge, moss-covered gator head, must have been six feet long, surfaces right next to the ladder. It wasn't alive, just a hollowed-out skull and spine tangled in old roots that our suction had pulled up. Looked like something from a horror movie. We both jumped a foot in the air. Mike just said, 'Well, that's a first.' Had to shut down and clear the intake by hand, which was not fun in the dark with that thing staring at us. What's the weirdest thing you've ever pulled up with the dredge?
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ray_campbell4629d ago
Man, that gator skull story is wild! Tbh, the weirdest thing we ever pulled up was a whole motorcycle. Not like a piece of it, the full thing, handlebars and all. It was wrapped up in fishing line and old clothes. We were just clearing a small creek and the pump started making this awful grinding sound. Had to shut everything down and pull out this rusted-out dirt bike. Never did figure out how it got there.
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grantw3229d ago
That's crazy, @ray_campbell46. Makes me think of the time a buddy found a shopping cart full of concrete blocks in a pond. People dump the weirdest stuff.
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emery_black27d ago
Yeah, that motorcycle story is next level. Makes you wonder about the story behind it, like if it was stolen and ditched or just some weird backyard cleanup gone wrong. The concrete blocks in the cart is one thing, but a whole vehicle takes real effort to get rid of. Honestly, the stuff people will haul out to the middle of nowhere to avoid a dump fee is wild. It's like they think water just makes things disappear forever.
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